For the second
time I hear you saying that
“Iran hasn’t invaded another
country in more than 300 years”.
You obnoxiously in both
instances blamed and accused
Iraq for waging a war and
invading Iran and that Iran was
defending itself against that
invasion. In your last
broadcasted audio conversation
on “YouTube” with your caller
James in Saffic who reminded you
by saying that “Iran
if you recall fought very brutal
war against Iraq” you
replied nervously by saying the
following: I can’t believe you
just said that …. Iran didn’t
fight a brutal war against Iraq
…. Iraq invaded Iran …. Iraq
invaded Iran using our weapons
and with the support of our
government …. What do you mean
they fought a brutal war against
Iraq? They were invaded for God
sake …. What is that have to do
for being a threat for us for
God sake …. We encouraged Iraq
to invade them and you are using
the fact that they fought hard
to defend their country when it
was invaded as the reason for
invading them”.

You know very
well that your accusation is
totally wrong and is utterly a
blatant falsification of the
truth and the history of that
war which Iran’s Khomeini had
started and waged it against
Iraq before it was known
internationally. What evidence
you got to insinuate that Iraq
used your weapon to invade and
fight Iran?!!! What evidence you
got to claim that your
government encouraged and
supported Iraq to invade
Iran?!!!! I know politics is
the art of possibilities but I
also know that politic is the
art of lies of deception and
deceit but, unfortunately, I was
not aware that politics became
the art of moral and mental
destitution and prostitution.

Mr. George
Galloway, if you are totally
ignorant about the actual reason
for the eight years war with
Iran for some reason or another,
I would like therefore,
herewith, to enlighten you about
what actually had happened
before Iraq reacted against the
Iranian aggression and hence the
beginning of the official date
of that war. The documented
facts that I am citing some of
them herein originated from the
registered events of the armed
assaults and violations
committed by the Iranian armed
forces, Iranian air force and
the Iranian revolutionary guards
against the Iraqi oil and
economic facilities and against
Iraqi villages which are/were
located near the Iraq-Iran
borders. Those facts were also
mentioned by the martyr
President Saddam Hussein in a
filmed popular gathering after
the end of the war in 1988.
Those documented aggressions
committed against Iraq by the
Iranian armed forces before the
actual date of the start of the
war were sent in the form of
written diplomatic protests to
the Iranian government via the
Iranian embassy in Baghdad. The
number of these written
diplomatic protests handed to
the officials in the Iranian
Embassy in Baghdad was 293. The
Iranian government ignored those
protests and probably explained
them as if they were points
revealing Iraq’s weakness. That
information were also sent at
that time to the Security
Council of the United Nations
and also reported to the
participants in Al Taef
conference in Saudi Arabia.

Khomeini started
his aggression against Iraq
since he came to power and
escalated that aggression until
it reached its maximum at
September fourth 1980.You should
also definitely know that
Khomeini said directly after the
success of his revolution and
the ousting of the Shah of Iran
that he wanted to spread his
Islamic revolution in the region
to include the whole Middle East
countries and he had also said
that the road to liberating
Jerusalem passes through
Baghdad, that is to say
occupying Iraq and change its
government.

Here is some of
what happened before the start
of the war:

From
February 1979 to September 1980,
the Iranian air force violated
the Iraqi airspace 249 times.

From June 1979 to
September 1980,
civilian target inside Iraq were
bombed 244 times by the Iranian
armed forces; that is to say 244
acts of aggression.

The Iranian shot
three times at Iraqi civilian
airplanes, and in one time
Iranian jetfighters violated the
Iraqi airspace and forced an
Iraqi civilian airplane to land
inside the Iranian territory.

In
October 11, October 26, November
1 and November 7, 1979,
the Iraqi Consulate in Al
Mohamara in the occupied Arab
Ahwaz Province was attacked and
occupied 4 times and Iraqi
officials there were expelled by
the Iranian revolutionary guards
in discord with the known
diplomatic conventionality.

From
January 1980 to September 1980,
the Iranian attacked the Iraqi
oil and economic facilities 7
times.

Moreover, the
Khomeini regime encouraged its
agents inside Iraq to commit
acts of aggression and crimes
before the start of the war.

For
example, in April 1, 1980
they attacked Al Mustansiriya
University and killed several
young female and male students.

In
April 5, 1980
during the escort of the
deceased students by their
colleagues and the Iraqi masses,
the Iranian agents threw bombs
on the funeral procession and
killed a large number of
students as well as other
participants in the procession.
Also injured in the Al
Mustansiriya attack were vice
Prime Minister Tarik Aziz who is
currently prisoner of war at an
American Prison in Iraq, and Mr.
Badr Al Din Mdathar, member of
the National Command of the
Baath Party.

The
Iranian aggression against Iraq
occurred in September 4, 1980
and From
September 4, 1980 to September
22, 1980; the
followings had taken place
against the Iraqi oil and
economic facilities and against
the Iraqi cities and civilians
located near the Iranian
borders:

The Iranian
bombardment included the Wind
Refinery, Oil fields, Khanaqeen,
Mandali, Zorbatia, Basrah city,
oil fields and facilities in
Basrah; Shaat Al Arab was also
closed before
September 22, 1980.
The Iranian used their air force
to attack the Iraqi army inside
Iraq territory and also attacked
Iraq airplanes patrolling the
Iraqi borders.

Here are some
examples of some of the
registered military aggression
and violations committed by the
Iranian forces against Iraq
before the start of the war, and
which were sent to the Iranian
government as written diplomatic
protest via the Iranian embassy
in
August 11, 1980. I am
citing only what happened and
not the diplomatic text of the
letter:

This
what happened in July 31, 1980

At 945hr the
Iranian forces opened artillery
fire from their cannons and
tanks against Chwar Klaw area
and the shooting was stopped at
1200hr.

At 1000hr, the
Iranian forces open fire against
Abdel Rahmman Al Dakhel
checkpoint and at the foot of
mount Bamboo and 1230hr the
shooting was stopped.

At 1615hr, the
Iranian forces opened heavy
artillery fire against Nafoot
Khana area and stopped shooting
at 1630hr.

At 1630hr of the
same day, the Iranian forces
opened it heavy artillery fire
against Al Khafiqi checkpoint
and the shooting continued until
1930hr.

This
what happened in August 4, 1980

At 900hr, the
Iranian forces opened its heavy
artillery fire against Ramadan
checkpoint and Al Wind
checkpoint, and at 930 of the
same day opened its artillery
fire against Okba Ben Ghazwan
checkpoint.

At 1030hr, the
Iranian forces opened its
artillery fire against Al
Hussein checkpoint, Alshorta
quarter in Al Monthireya area
and shooting was stopped at
1115hr.

At 1200hr, the
Iranian forces opened its
artillery fire against Chwar
Klaw area and against Badr
checkpoint, and at 1200hr of the
same day the Iranian forces
opened its artillery fire
against the Iraqi army at Bawya.

Here
are some other events sent to
the Iranian government in
another protest letter:

At 1810hr in August
6, 1980 the Iranian
forces opened fire against
Hotheyfa checkpoint and the
shooting was stopped at 1930hr.

At 1529hr in August
11, 1980 an Iranian
jetfighter violated the Iraqi
airspace and flew around 10 km
inside Iraq at Badra area.

At 1015hr in August
11, 1980 the Iranian
forces opened its heavy
artillery fire and missile
against Al Khafiqi checkpoint
and Zain Alqaws and at 1320 the
shooting was stopped.

Mr. George
Galloway, you know very well
what is going on now in the
occupied Iraq. You also know
very well what influence the
Iranian have in Iraq following
its illegal occupation by the
American forces and their allies
among them are/were the Iranian
who on several occasion
(Mohammed Khatami, Rafsanjani,
Ali Abtahi and other Iranian
high officials) proclaim that
without the help of Iran America
would have never been able to
occupy Iraq or Afghanistan on
its own.

Mr. George
Galloway, you know very well
what crimes and atrocities the
Iranians and their cronies –
Shia militia and the Kurdish
Beshmarga - have committed
against the innocent Iraqi
people in collaboration with the
dead squads composed by the war
criminals John Negroponte and
the Israeli Mossad. The number
of Iraqi victims resulted from
the crimes committed by these
gangsters, mercenaries and those
committed by the American
occupation forces and their
allies among them are the
British forces mounted to more
than three millions excluding
the five dislocated people who
were forced to leave their
homes.

Mr. George
Galloway, I know you are a
faithful friend to our brothers
the Palestinian people, and I
also know that you are a friend
of the Arab people and stand
against imperialism,
globalization and against the
wars waged by the war criminal
little George Bush and his
Zionist Neocons friends who are
influential in his
administration and who brought
disasters to the American people
and the world at large. However,
that would not hinder us from
directing our criticism towards
your politically and
historically incorrect claims
that Iraq invaded Iran despite
the fact that the contrary
is/was true.